Car-coupling



No Model.) C. L. BECK.

OAR'GOUPLING. No. 524,127. Patented Aug. '7, 1894.

" UNITED STATES PATENT mm.

CHARLES L. BECK, OF REBERSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

CAR-COUPLING.

I SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 524,127, dated August '7, 1894.

Application filed March 22, 1894. Serial No. 504,709. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES L. BECK, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Rebersburg, in the county of Centre and State of Pennsylvania, have inventedoertain new and useful Improvements in Car-Couplings; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear,

pecially to the class where a link and lever operated pin are employed, and also a plate which works automatically to eject the link when the pin is lifted from an engaging relation, the pin being lifted by a lever connection which works the plate at the same movement.

isa longitudinal section vertically through the coupler.

Referencenow being had to the details of the drawings by letter, A, represents the drawhead which has a beveled opening B, for the reception of the link 0, which link has apertures c c for the reception of the coupling pins D. The pins D are pivoted in any suitable manner to bars .E, E, to which are at- The operation ofthe coupler is as follows 5 5 The link slides in to the end of the draw heads in the beveled ends, the ends of the links come in contact with the swinging plates, and the pins through the lever and crank connection are, lowered through the eyes in said links, and the coupling effected. When the uncoupling is made, the hand levers are drawn back, the pins are raised and the links are thrown'out of the draw heads.

' Having thus described my invention, what I claim to be new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In an automatic car coupling, thecombination of the swinging plate pivoted within the draw head having crank and lever connec- 7o tions with a coupling pin, of a shaft pivoted to projections on the upper surface of the draw head, the bar F connecting the shaft E carrying the pin, D, and the shaft G, the said plate K adapted to lower the pin, when the pressure of the link is brought to bearagainst the same, allsubstantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in I 7 presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES L. BECK. Witnesses:

W. J. OARLIN, J. W. WAITE. 

